Jaywalking with the Irish
David Monagan, A74Lonely Planet Publications

In 2000, David Monagan, A74, decided to fulfill a dream. So he packed up his
Connecticut home and moved with his wife and three children across the pond
to Ireland. There, in a rented house in Cork, they tried to fit in, with various
degrees of success. In Jaywalking with the Irish, Monagan describes their experiences,
from mastering the purchasing of groceries to helping the children adjust to
school in a different land to learning to navigate the syntax of Irish English.

The Body in the Attic
Katherine Hall Page, G74William Morrow

In her 14th Faith Fairchild mystery, Katherine Hall Page moves her mystery-solving
caterer from the peaceful village of Aleford, Massachusetts, to the greater
Boston area. There Faith runs into Richard Morgan, an old flame whose friendship
she is happy to renew. Back in her Cambridge home, Faith discovers a diary
penned by a woman in 1946 that reveals a mystery about the house. Richard has
secrets of his own, too, and Faith is soon caught up in solving the mysteries,
as a murderer lurks a little too close to home.

Between the Doorposts
Isa Milman, BSOT 71Ekstasis Editions

Poet and artist Isa Milman, a daughter of Holocaust survivors,
gives voice to the passion and pain of the post-Holocaust
experience in this first book of poetry. Ancient Hebrew
melodies sing of a family and life now lost, and the
revelation of a new world, as the poet wrestles with
identity and personal “place.”Back to Top

Anya’s Echoes
Esty Schachter, J86Fithian Press

Lea is a 13-year-old girl with the usual problems: family,
friends, grades, and boys. It doesn’t seem fair
that she has to share a room with her little sister when
her great-aunt Anya comes for an extended visit. As if
that weren’t enough, Lea’s best friends at
school are fighting among themselves, and she has to
choose between staying loyal and staying popular. Then
Lea discovers a tape her Aunt Anya, a survivor of the
Holocaust, has recorded. In time, Anya becomes a wise
and caring mentor from whom Lea learns the value of personal
courage.

Brave Santa
Nancy Poydar, J64Holiday House

In Nancy Poydar’s latest picture book, it’s
almost Christmas. Jack is excited, but nervous, too.
He doesn’t want to have to talk to Santa. So when
his parents take him to the mall, Jack slips behind a
curtain. Much to his surprise, he’s not alone!

In this picture book, Sam is one of eight small ferries
that serve Victoria Harbour in British Columbia. As the
newest member of the team, he learns his job, including
basic nautical terms, transporting people and their parcels,
recognizing different kinds of boats, touring the harbor,
saving a kayaker, bringing a baby orca back to its mother,
traveling through fog to deliver a message, and, finally,
earning the chance to “dance” in the Sunday
Water Ballet. Illustrations include renderings of well-known
Victoria landmarks.Back to Top

The Lobster Coast: Rebels, Rusticators, and the Struggle
for a Forgotten Frontier
Colin Woodard, J91Viking Press

For more than four centuries, the people of coastal
Maine have clung to their rocky, windswept land, resisting
outsiders’ attempts to control them while harvesting
the astonishing bounty of the Gulf of Maine. Today’s
independent, self-sufficient lobstermen are threatened
by the forces of homogen-ization spreading up
the eastern seaboard. Veteran journalist Colin
Woodard traces the history of the rugged fishing
communities that dot the coast of Maine and the
prized crustacean that has long provided their
livelihood, illustrating how these icons of American
individualism represent a rare example of true
communal values and collaboration through grit,
courage, and hard-won wisdom.

For more than 5,000 years Sinop, the central port
on the Black Sea coast, has seemed more remote from
the rest of the Anatolian land mass than from the
more distant Greece, Italy, Africa, the Crimea, Istanbul,
and Rome. In this first volume from the Sinop Regional
Archaeological Project, Owen Doonan, assistant professor
of art history at California State University, Northridge,
rigorously explores the connection in social and
economic terms between Sinop, its hinterland, and
the Black Sea world from pre-colonial Greek settlements
through ages of empires, from Roman, Russian, and
Ottoman conquests to the present day.

In this 150th anniversary edition, famed children’s-book
author and illustrator Michael McCurdy has
created 49 simple yet striking woodcuts that illustrate
and illuminate this American classic. In 1845,
Henry David Thoreau began building a cabin on the
shore of Walden Pond near Concord, Massachusetts.
Walden is a record of the 26 months he spent in withdrawal
from society and a declaration of independence
from the oppressive mores of the world he left behind.

Vienna and the Fall of the Habsburg
Empire: Total War and Everyday Life in World
War I
Maureen Healy, J90Cambridge University Press

Maureen Healy, an assistant professor of history at Oregon
State University, traces the fall of the Habsburg Empire
during World War I from the perspective of everyday life
in the capital city. She argues that the home front in
Europe’s first “total war” was marked
by civilian conflict in the streets, shops, schools,
theaters and cafés, and apartment buildings. While
Habsburg armies waged military campaigns on distant fronts,
women, children, and “left at home” men waged
a protracted, socially devastating war against one another.
The book will fascinate those interested in modern Europe
and the history of the Great War.

A Family of His Own: A Life
of Edwin O’Connor
Charles F. Duffy, G73The Catholic University of America Press

In this biography, the first to be written of Edwin O’Connor
(1918–1968), Charles F. Duffy, professor of English
at Providence College, examines the complex ways by which
O’Connor’s own experience of family and friendship
formed essential patterns in his works. When The Last
Hurrah was published in 1956, the obscure O’Connor
gained sudden wealth and fame with his novel about an
unforgettable Irish-American politician. Six years later
his intimate portrait of a recovered alcoholic priest
in The Edge of Sadness won a Pulitzer Prize. The different
worlds of these two novels highlight a striking contrast
in their author, a witty, affable man with many devoted
friends, yet an intensely private person.

See You at the Hall: Boston’s
Golden Era of Irish Music and Dance
Susan Gedutis, G00Northeastern University Press

In this engaging look back at Boston’s golden era
of Irish traditional music, Susan J. Gedutis, music book
editor at Berklee Press, weaves together narrative with
personal reminiscences to trace the colorful dance-hall
period from its beginnings in 1940s Roxbury, when masses
of young Irish flooded Boston following World War II,
through its peak years in the 1950s to its decline in
the 1960s, when reduced immigration, urban social upheaval,
and a shift in neighborhood demographics brought an end
to the heyday of Irish dance-hall music in Boston. See
You at the Hall brings to life the rich history of the “American
capital of Galway” through the eyes of those who
gathered and performed there.

The field of forensic geology—using geology techniques
to aid in criminal and civil investigations—has
been a stalwart in the field of criminalistics since
the days of Sherlock Holmes. From stories of safecracking
and purloined palm trees to lurid tales of kidnapping
and murder—including such high-profile cases as
those of Aldo Moro and Adolph Coors—this book leads
readers through some of the most intriguing mysteries
involving soil and rock evidence. Along the way readers
will learn about the history of forensic geology; types
of rocks, soils, gemstones, and related synthetic materials;
techniques for proper evidence collection and analysis;
and how geologic evidence is used in court.

In collaboration with the Yale School of Management-The
Goldman Sachs Foundation Partnership on Nonprofit Ventures,
this comprehensive guide identifies best practices
for generating a reliable income stream and ultimately
reducing nonprofit organizations’ dependence on traditional
sources of funding. Edited by renowned scholar and consultant
Sharon Oster, with Cynthia Massarsky and Samantha Beinhacker,
deputy directors of The Partnership on Nonprofit Ventures,
Generating and Sustaining Nonprofit Earned Income will
teach readers sound business-planning strategies that
can significantly benefit their organizations’ internal
capacity and financial health.

The co-founders and editors of Desktop Publishing/Publish
magazine tackle music’s hottest new product in
iPod & iTunes for Dummies. This guide teaches users
how to set up an iPod, load it with songs (legally),
manage music files, fiddle with sound quality, and use
the alarm, calendar, and games.

A Voice for Nonprofits
Jeffrey M. Berry with David F. AronsBrookings Institution Press

America’s nonprofit organizations come in all
shapes and sizes, ranging from major symphony
orchestras to PTAs run by a handful of volunteers.
Increasingly, however, nonprofits are being used to
deliver basic governmental services. This is particularly
evident in the areas of health and human services,
as many of these organizations have become a lifeline
to millions of Americans. Jeffrey Berry, the John Richard
Skuse Class of 1941 Professor of Political Science
at Tufts, and David Arons posit that this governmental
policy harms the most vulnerable populations, denying
them effective representation in the U.S. political
system.

The Beat movement nurtured many female dissidents and
artists who contributed to the culture and connected
the Beats with the second wave of the women’s movement.
Women like Diane di Prima, Joyce Johnson, and Hettie
Jones made considerable contributions to Beat literature.
Nancy M. Grace and Ronna C. Johnson, a lecturer in English
at Tufts, combine interviews with literary criticism
and biography to illustrate the vivacity and intensity
of women Beat writers, and argue that American literature
was revitalized as much by these women’s work as
by that of their male counterparts.